A Civil Action, Paperback

"Now in its fourth edition, Civil Society has become a major work of reference for those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen actio...

In contrast to a social scientific literature that characterizes Polish civil society as weak and passive, this volume focuses on forms of collecti...

Reducere. In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement ...

Reducere. The theory and practice of civil disobedience has once again taken on import, given recent events. Considering widespread dissatisfaction with norm...

A comprehensive and vivid account of the action on the Mississippi River during the Civil War.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s):...

Reducere. Sparked by Thoreau's outrage at American slavery and the American-Mexican war, Civil Disobedience is a call for every citizen to value his conscien...

Reducere. What is Section 1983?"Section 1983" refers to 42 U.S.C. 1983, the federal statute that enables you to file a civil action for deprivation of consti...

The seventh action-packed Victorian military adventure featuring hero Jack Lark: soldier, leader, imposter.

A new arc of the Spider-Man/Deadpool crossover called 'Infinite House of Civil Yet Secret Crisis War Invasions' begins in this action-packed instal...

Reducere. Winner of the Alice Hanson Jones Prize, Economic History AssociationA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearThe civil rights movement was al...

At the outset of the American Civil War, the wealthy inventor and expert shot Hiram Berdan initiated the setting-up of sharpshooting units in the U...

Reducere. DescriptionSamaria and her friends like everything about their clubhouse except the haunted house across the street. But when Samaria and her mothe...

Reducere. In this slim volume, Zinn lays out a clear and dynamic case for civil disobedience and protest, and challenges the dominant arguments against forms...

Reducere. A concise and comprehensive edition of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and related selected statutes for quick reference. Updated through Janu...

Reducere. This is a story of a great and noble man. A man of courage and determination who was willing to face arrest for leaving the government's reservatio...

Reducere. Over 1 million sold in series When they step into the Imagination Station, kids experience an unforgettable journey filled with action-packed adven...

DescriptionA veteran activist's guide to direct action and strategic civil disobedience as the most radical and rapid means to social change For de...

Reducere. A biography of John Lewis, one of the "Big Six" civil rights leaders of the 1960s, focusing on his involvement in Freedom Rides, the March on Washi...

With England on the brink of civil war, exile Thomas Chayne finally has the chance to redeem himself by leading a troop of royalists to defend Oxfo...

Reducere. This collection of Dorothy Day's "On Pilgrimage" columns from the 1960s is a chronicle of faith and action. Living among the poor and seeking God i...

Reducere. Championing counter ideology, societal education, and direct action professor Asimakopoulos develops a theory to action model for working class mov...

Reducere. The only volume dedicated entirely to the military history of an embattled Deep South state From the first Union attack on Vicksburg in the spring ...

Reducere. Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military act...

Reviews five examples of international criminal justice as they have been applied across Africa, where brutal civil conflicts in recent decades res...

A first-hand, non-fiction account of the drastic change in the socio-political climate of one of the most influential, fastest-growing, yet histori...

Based on the reprinted Revels Plays Edition of 1964, the notes to this play have been augmented to cast futher light on Webster's dialogue. A new i...

Reducere. Kate Cumming was one of the first women to offer her services for the care of the South's wounded soldiers. Her journal provides a look behind the ...

Reducere. Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in...

An expert account of Nazi Germany's air war during the Spanish Civil War, where air power turned the tide for Franco and taught the Luftwaffe how t...

Delany's tale of Blake, an escaped slave in the era before the US Civil War brings the harrowing detail of life under slavery and offers a call to ...

Awards🏆Winner (2005) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: Michael J. KlarmanA monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's ruling...

Reducere. The Empress has given England a male heir but that single action creates rebels in Scotland and in Normandy who try to wrest Normandy and England f...

Reducere. A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change a...

What would it be like to become Idi Amin's personal physician? Giles Foden's best-selling thriller is the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn in...

Political and civil discourse in the United States is characterized by "Truth Decay, " defined as increasing disagreement about facts, a blurring o...

Reducere. Action and Treachery in America's Civil WarPolarizing, fire-eating discourse, propaganda, and aversion to reason bred secession madness in Charlest...

Reducere. An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically--up to the present day--worked against racial justice. And a call for urgen...

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

Many prominent and well-known figures greatly impacted the civil rights movement, but one of the most influential and unsung leaders of that period...

Reducere. Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this d...

Winchester Lever-Action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West. Introduced shortly after the American Civil War...

Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to...

More than 150 years after the event, the grand attack against the Union position on Cemetery Ridge still emotionally resonates with Gettysburg enth...

Reducere. For 38 years my law practice has represented physically disabled persons in civil rights cases challenging architectural barriers and other forms o...

Reducere. For centuries, Jews have been accused of something called "blood libel" or "ritual murder" the killing of non-Jews, often children, to use their bl...

Reducere. When the #BlackLivesMatter protest movement burst into dynamic action following the shooting death of young Michael Brown in the fall of 2014 in Fe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsIn this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves ac...

Reducere. "I am not a civil rights hero. I am a warrior, and I am on a mission from God." --James Meredith James Meredith engineered two of the most epic eve...

DescriptionMabel Aphrodite Brown has quickly learned that motherhood can sometimes be a real skirmish. But when death visits a Civil War reenactmen...

In 1961, 16-year-old Brenda Travis was a youth leader of the NAACP branch in her hometown of McComb, Mississippi. She joined in the early stages of...

DescriptionTwo months after the U.S. Supreme Court rendered its momentous Brown v. Board of Education decision, an eight-year-old girl named Susan ...

An acclaimed, timely study of how people of faith have historically--up to the present day--worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent ac...

Reducere. This wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education i...

DescriptionA highly illustrated account of the first and largest fleet action between the navies of Great Britain and France during the French Revo...

Reducere. One of the most widely read poems of our time, John Brown's Body is Stephen Vincent Ben t's masterful retelling of the Civil War. A book of great e...

Reducere. Mud, Blood & Cold Steel: The Retreat from Nashville, December 1864 takes a fresh look, for the first time with campaign and battle maps, at the unp...

Bram Stoker's gothic horror masterpiece pits good against evil and life against death, all under the thrall of the original vampire.... "Listen to ...

Reducere. Jacob Fletcher is beset by treachery at every turn of the ship's wheel at sea and with every step on dry land.1797. Fletcher is sent halfway round ...

Reducere. Isla, a Black, transgender girl, is just an ordinary student when government forces arrest her and her teacher for revolutionary activity. This act...

Reducere. The U.S. government, complicit with the well-connected corporations, since the so-called Civil War, continues to wage war and destruction. Lincoln'...

Reducere. In the turmoil of the Russian insurrection of 1905 and civil war of 1917, the anarchists attempted to carry out their program of ``direct action``-...

Reducere. As a Mizell family descendant who married and had children with a Barber, author Mary Ida Bass Barber Shearhart has a personal interest in the infa...

Reducere. Warren's first novel, set during the tobacco wars that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warr...

Reducere. A valuable resource and stirring call to action for anyone interested in antiracist perspectives on policy and scholarship.About author(s): Stephen...

Reducere. Caesar portrayed his invasion of Gaul as being a defensive pre-emptive action, most historians agree that the wars were fought primarily to boost C...

DescriptionIvan Dolinar is born in Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day, 1948 -- the auspicious beginning of a life that will be derailed by backf...

DescriptionEvidence in Context is designed to create a fully contextual understanding of the law of evidence. It contains two relatively detailed c...

Reducere. For a huge number of Republicans, Goldwater's book, The Conscience of a Conservative was must reading. I believe it is just as vital today as it wa...

Reducere. Fed up with an outlaw existence, Calico Jack Rackam swears off the pirate life, until he meets Anne Bonny, a woman who would as soon stab a man as ...

Reducere. Lincoln's Last Days is a gripping account of one of the most dramatic nights in American history--of how one gunshot changed the country forever. A...